And this may of course lead to more kissing because oh dear, there's nowhere for the first lieutenant to go do his paperwork, save the captain's cabin... Meanwhile, in between the kissing, Bush is earnestly and desperately trying to get his paperwork done, somewhere, anywhere, because it sure as hell isn't getting done in the captain's cabin, and he doesn't want Hornblower to get an attack of remorse-slash-duty and pull the plug on the whole shebang...
(I can guarantee you they are going to be finding every excuse in the book to spend time together over the next little while.) And they are both going to be shaven whistle-clean at all times from here to England, no reason, la la, standards must be kept up!
Crisis: Yes, Bush is still first lieutenant when Hotspur sinks -- it happens not two days after the change in command. Hornblower has to testify at Bush's court martial. Also, Crisis has Hornblower and Bush sleeping together again, and we're all fans of that.
I really enjoyed Admiral. Mind you, I felt Bush's absence like a missing tooth, but two of my very favorite Hornblower stories are in there. And by "very favorite" I mean "I howled with laughter and made grrlpup listen while I read it out loud to her." I know we have mixed feelings about Lady Barbara, but one of those two Admiral stories I love so much features her -- in fact, she is why I love that story so much.
And fight pirates or something and nearly sink Nelson. He becomes a SPY. He has a SPY MISSION. Which we don't get to hear about, because the novel stops while the spy mission is still being set up. Fighting pirates is in Admiral, although as I recall it's less pirates and more slavers and Bonapartists? Maybe the people who abduct Hornblower and carry him off to their jungle lair are pirates -- I'd have to go back and check their affiliation.
It *is* a HEA, it's just a complicated HEA. *thinks of all the travails of canon still waiting for them, and wibbles a little bit*
And shh, let me write Kingston first :-) YAAYYYYY
Lydia is always going to be a vale of tears. But I've written a short bit about the end there that makes it less vale of tears-y so maybe it isn't SO bad. MORE YAYYYY. I want to see all the bits you've written. And all the bits you're planning on writing, too. Gimme gimme!
I can see it now: "Maria's opinions on having the press skewer her as being another Lady Hamilton when in fact she's Lord Hamilton*." As I said, I want all the stories!
Lord Hamilton: Everything I know about the Hamiltons I learned from Black Sails fandom, but can we rule out that Lord Hamilton had his own thing going with Nelson? And that's why he didn't mind Nelson's thing with his wife?
They apparently called themselves the 'three in one' which I, with my modern sensibilities, side-eye hard... Why do you side-eye it? I'm missing a piece of your train of thought there. Or are you alluding to the possibility that all three of them had things with both of the others?
You know, somewhere in canon there's a bit where Hornblower has the shuddering horrors of being publicly linked with a mistress like SOME naval captains he won't name -- was that meant to be a shout-out to Nelson and the Hamiltons, do you think?
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Date: 2019-09-14 05:11 pm (UTC)(I can guarantee you they are going to be finding every excuse in the book to spend time together over the next little while.) And they are both going to be shaven whistle-clean at all times from here to England, no reason, la la, standards must be kept up!
Crisis: Yes, Bush is still first lieutenant when Hotspur sinks -- it happens not two days after the change in command. Hornblower has to testify at Bush's court martial. Also, Crisis has Hornblower and Bush sleeping together again, and we're all fans of that.
I really enjoyed Admiral. Mind you, I felt Bush's absence like a missing tooth, but two of my very favorite Hornblower stories are in there. And by "very favorite" I mean "I howled with laughter and made
And fight pirates or something and nearly sink Nelson. He becomes a SPY. He has a SPY MISSION. Which we don't get to hear about, because the novel stops while the spy mission is still being set up. Fighting pirates is in Admiral, although as I recall it's less pirates and more slavers and Bonapartists? Maybe the people who abduct Hornblower and carry him off to their jungle lair are pirates -- I'd have to go back and check their affiliation.
It *is* a HEA, it's just a complicated HEA. *thinks of all the travails of canon still waiting for them, and wibbles a little bit*
And shh, let me write Kingston first :-) YAAYYYYY
Lydia is always going to be a vale of tears. But I've written a short bit about the end there that makes it less vale of tears-y so maybe it isn't SO bad. MORE YAYYYY. I want to see all the bits you've written. And all the bits you're planning on writing, too. Gimme gimme!
I can see it now: "Maria's opinions on having the press skewer her as being another Lady Hamilton when in fact she's Lord Hamilton*." As I said, I want all the stories!
Lord Hamilton: Everything I know about the Hamiltons I learned from Black Sails fandom, but can we rule out that Lord Hamilton had his own thing going with Nelson? And that's why he didn't mind Nelson's thing with his wife?
They apparently called themselves the 'three in one' which I, with my modern sensibilities, side-eye hard... Why do you side-eye it? I'm missing a piece of your train of thought there. Or are you alluding to the possibility that all three of them had things with both of the others?
You know, somewhere in canon there's a bit where Hornblower has the shuddering horrors of being publicly linked with a mistress like SOME naval captains he won't name -- was that meant to be a shout-out to Nelson and the Hamiltons, do you think?